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About Newport

Newport, Baile Uí Fhiacháin in Irish, is a town in County Mayo, 75 km north-west of Galway. It stands on the N59, R311 and R317. The map gives it 1,529 buildings and 15 named streets, with 48 places named on them in 28 kinds, and 106 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 17th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.

Where
75 km north-west of Galway, 225 km from Dublin
Position
53.8848° N, 9.5467° W
Roads
N59, R311 and R317
Governed
Mayo County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
1,529 buildings, 15 streets, 48 named places in 28 kinds
Newport - County Mayo - Seven Arch Railway Viaduct over Black Oak River
Newport - County Mayo - Seven Arch Railway Viaduct over Black Oak River·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Mayo - Newport - Seven Arch Railway Viaduct over Black Oak River
County Mayo - Newport - Seven Arch Railway Viaduct over Black Oak River·Suzanne Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Mayo since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

388,887109,525137,97018412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 106 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N59, R311 and R317 running through Newport.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Newport?
In County Mayo, in the province of Connacht, 75 km north-west of Galway and 225 km from Dublin, on the N59, R311 and R317.
How big is Newport?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,529 buildings, 15 named streets and 48 named places, which by building count makes it the 17th largest of the 99 settlements this site covers in County Mayo.
What is there to see in Newport?
106 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Information post about local trails., Canon Kileen Park and Princess Grace Park.
How do you get to Newport?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Mayo.
Has County Mayo grown or shrunk?
The census counted 388,887 people in the county in 1841 and 137,970 in 2022.
1,529
buildings on the model
15
named streets
48
named places
28
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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